Although Carbon Dioxide is a widely recognized greenhouse gas, Methane is a considerably more potent heat-trapping gas. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Landfill Methane Outreach program (LMOP), landfills are the third largest human-made source of methane. Over 630 landfills in 48 states are using landfill methane to generate electricity instead of flaring the landfill gas, which greatly reduces atmospheric emissions. This same renewable landfill biomethane can also be cleaned of its moisture, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, siloxanes and other trace impurities and injected into a local or interstate gas pipeline.

Today’s rapidly growing just-in-time products and goods delivery market has propelled heavy-duty vehicles into the fasting growing segment of the United States transportation sector in terms of energy use and vehicle emissions. According to NGV America (Natural Gas Vehicles of America), although heavy-duty vehicles total only 7% of vehicles on America’s roadways, they account for 50% of all smog-precursor emissions and 20% of all transportation-related greenhouse gases. Additionally, over 35% of Americans reside in areas of exceedingly poor air quality and 40% of our population is regularly exposed to unhealthy levels of ozone and particulate matter. This situation has resulted in the migration of transport vehicles to cleaner-burning fuels, which has been gaining widespread support in North America at both the federal and state levels.

WRH Biogas, LLC and WRH Power Systems, LLC work together during project planning, design, engineering and construction often exploiting the optionality at the Landfill and Digester sites. Frequently land is available for blending other renewables such as solar, wind, battery and storage with conventional thermal generation for continuous, dispatchable renewable-based power generation at or near our RNG sites.